ISDA has today launched the ISDA 2021 Security-based Swaps (SBS) Protocol Agreement, aimed at helping firms meet certain rules developed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which will come into force later this year.
The ISDA 2021 SBS Protocol Agreement allows firms to amend the terms of their agreements with other adhering parties to meet a variety of SEC SBS rules, including reporting and dissemination of SBS information, business conduct standards for SBS dealers and major SBS participants, and risk mitigation techniques for non-cleared SBS.
Unlike the ISDA 2021 SBS Top-Up Protocol published on March 15, use of the ISDA 2021 SBS Protocol Agreement does not rely on ISDA’s August 2012 and March 2013 Dodd-Frank protocols, which enabled firms to implement similar Dodd-Frank rules introduced by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for swap transactions. There is therefore no need for parties to have adhered to those earlier protocols or to have matched questionnaires with counterparties. Firms can also use the new standalone protocol if they intend to make different elections for SBS compared to the ones they made for swaps under the 2012 and 2013 Dodd-Frank protocols.
To complete the adherence process for the ISDA 2021 SBS Protocol Agreement, firms will need to exchange information and elections in the form of questionnaires that are provided as part of the protocol. ISDA is working with IHS Markit to make these questionnaires available on ISDA Amend for electronic exchange of information.
The ISDA 2021 SBS Protocol Agreement is open to both ISDA members and non-members and is available here.
Additional information regarding the SBS Protocol Agreement will be available during ISDA’s virtual conference, SEC Regulation of Security-based Swaps – 2021 Impact on Non-dealer Counterparties, on Thursday, May 20.
For Press Queries, Please Contact:
Nick Sawyer, ISDA London, +44 20 3808 9740, nsawyer@isda.org
Lauren Springer (Dobbs), ISDA New York, +1 212 901 6019, ldobbs@isda.org
Joel Clark, ISDA London, +44 20 3808 9760, jclark@isda.org
Christopher Faimali, ISDA London, +44 20 3808 9736, cfaimali@isda.org
Nikki Lu, ISDA Hong Kong, +852 2200 5901, nlu@isda.org
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